How each Poirot Murderer Failed - Statistics

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How the Murderer's Plan Failed Murderer/Book % Correct
The killer could remember very little about the game of Bridge the suspects were playing when the victim was murdered, but could remember the layout of the room perfectly. This is in direct contrast with what the other suscpects could remember, and is due to the killer focussing more on how to execute the murder than the game. Dr. Geoffrey Roberts in "Cards on the Table"
79%
Poirot discovers an empty bottle once containing red ink, letting him know that the murderer must have used this to fake the gunshot wound he had used an excuse for not being able to commit the crime. Poirot also realises that three gunshots were fired the night of the murder: one to fake the murderer's injury, one to kill the victim, and one to actually give himself the injury afterwards as an alibi. Simon Doyle in "Death on the Nile"
77%
A comment by the victim "everything tastes foul today" reveals that he had drunken something else foul before the previously though poisoned beer from his wife. This lets Poirot know she was framed, and that the murderer poisoned the victim's beer beforehand. Elsa Greer in "Five Little Pigs"
66%
One of the witnesses saw a brooch worn by the murderer with their initials on it reflected in the mirror. Poirot realises that they are in fact A.T and not T.A as he previously thought, because it was a reflection, which leads him to the identity of the killer. Arabella Tanios in "Dumb Witness"
65%
Referred to an ornament of wax flowers on a table that she could not have possibly seen unless she was at Enderby Hall at the time pretending to be her victim. Miss Gilchrist in "After the Funeral"
65%
She did not understand the reference to "Paris" in Greek Mythology, when her alibi meant she should have known. She also misplaced a Pince-nez belonging to her maid in her scapegoats bag. Jane Wilkinson in "Lord Edgware Dies"
64%
Amy Folliat referred to the supposed victim as already deceased when the fact was unconfirmed at the time, revealing that the woman the murderer was masquerading as was killed long ago before she pretended to disappear. Hattie Stubbs in "Dead Man's Folly"
47%
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